“When we base our worth on something that fluctuates, like our mobility, our body size and shape, or our productivity, we’re setting ourselves up to feel like crap when life throws us a curveball.
Our inherent worth is NOT tied to how attractive or useful we are to someone else.”
-Glennon Doyle
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I will go one step further and add this bit:
Worth is entirely conceptual. As such, it is entirely subjective. Inherently, both nothing and everything have worth, because worth doesn’t exist outside of thought. You cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot pick it from a tree. It is not a solid thing, despite the importance our society places upon it.
However, in a more practical sense, it looks to me that "worth" is a birthrite. It is not something that fluctuates or is dependent upon anything external. You are born into existence as a human, thus you are fundamentally worthy to live a human life. That is what is, no? You wouldn’t have been born a human otherwise. Your so-called worth is derived from that unchangeable, formless energy that powers the entirety of the universe. The only reason your worth ever appears to be less than anyone else’s is because you are believing the chatter of a mind whose job is to compare compare compare. And we all know how much comparisons serve us…